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Menomena clearly thinks of itself as a clever bunch of musicians. Maybe next time around they'll be more interested in sharing their wit with their listeners rather than just alluding to it.
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For a debut, it's a remarkabley inventive and interesting release.
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One of the most surprising, challenging, and important albums of the year.
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While it makes no effort to conceal its intellect, it solicits an under-the-table emotional connection the Seas and Cakes of the indiesphere simply will not allow.
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It will take at least ten listens before you hear everything thats going on, and ten more to understand it, yet this is far from impenetrable; it boasts a melody line that any pop princess would sell her plastic soul for, and prompts the idea that Knopf and his cohorts have been hanging around a crossroads doing just the same.
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I cant recommend this album strongly enough.
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Suffice to say, Menomena are a hugely creative band, and with I Am the Fun Blame Monster, they've managed to make an album that's extremely accessible yet entirely unconventional.
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They sound like no one else.
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A promising debut from a band more clever than it is musically accomplished.
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Menomena is a wickedly creative band.
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I Am the Fun Blame Monster is totally vibrant, totally groovy, and once again, totally awesome.
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This is one of the albums of the year: completely out of left field and completely solid from start to finish.
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Under The RadarWhile the production techniques are so ingenious as to occasionally outshine the melodic content of the songs themselves, these are first and foremost pop songs. [#8, p.115]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 30
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Mixed: 1 out of 30
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Negative: 2 out of 30
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Nov 29, 2021
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jaykJul 20, 2007A promise of things to come..worth checking out but friend or foe is the one for me.
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NelsJDec 7, 2006